Manager, AI Engineer

Job Description

Required Skills:

DevOps, Machine Learning (ML), Software Development

Preferred Skills:

Amazon Web Services (AWS), JavaScript

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Manager, AI Engineer

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our companys’ IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview

As an AI Engineering manager you will help build, manage and develop a team of 3-4 AI, cloud and full stack engineers. You will collaborate with your AI engineering colleagues, AI manager and Tech Lead in other Technology centers. You will overlook design and building of AI solutions operated on cloud-based platforms that address complex business problems. You will apply your expertise in programming (such as Python), modern software engineering, MLOps practices, machine learning, large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), to make sure team delivers robust AI solutions that meet business, organizational and end-user needs.

You will work closely with product managers, product owners, AI tech lead, data scientists, architects, and engineers across global teams to design systems, determine functional and non-functional needs and implement solutions accordingly. You should be ready to work independently as well as in a team.

What will you do in this role

• Collaborate with global stakeholders and partners to evaluate value of AI engineering projects.
• Act as people manager and mentor to junior and mid-level engineers, driving best practices in platform engineering, software development, infrastructure management, and DevOps methodologies.
• Overlook team writing efficient, maintainable, and secure code following software engineering best practices.
• Design and deliver backend, front end services and AI platform components with high scalability and reliability.
• Architect, deploy, and operate cloud-native infrastructure (primarily AWS or GCP).
• Apply Infrastructure-as-Code, containerization and Kubernetes at scale
• Create and review usage of DevOps best practices, maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Argo CD) for automated build, test, deployment, and monitoring.

What should you have

• Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
• 7-11 years of hands-on experience in software engineering, including 3 years in AI engineering, including 3 years of people management experience.

Primary skills (must-have)

• Past international job experience.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate in diverse multi-cultural environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities through analytical, detail-oriented and customer-focused approach.
• Strong hands-on Python skills; ability to review code and mentor engineers.
• Proven experience building scalable AI solutions within a modern technology stack (cloud services, data pipelines, databases, etc).
• Solid understanding of machine learning and GenAI  concepts.
• Demonstrated experience designing and deploying cloud-native solutions on AWS exposure to GCP is a plus.
• Experience with DevOps practices (Git, Docker, infrastructure as code, observability, continuous integration/continuous deployment - CI/CD).

Secondary skills (nice to have)

• Experience working in Agile methodology.
• Experience with AWS Cloud, ideally AWS certified.
• Additional programming languages (Java, TypeScript, .NET).

Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Job Posting End Date:

05/28/2026

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